IF you haven't already, Sign up now for Butel’s Bytes and get lots of recipes, nutrition and health information, hints, tips and good to know facts about Southwestern, Mexican and cooking with chiles. When you sign up, I will give you a collection of my five favorite recipes. I look forward to sharing my cooking with you, Jane Butel

This attractive Gift Box is just perfect for a hostess gift or for yourself. The book is just loaded with delicious recipes from appetizers to desserts. You can consider this the "Gift that Keeps on Giving" and promises healthy, fun cooking at the same time.

I will autograph the cookbook however you wish. The book has some of my all-time favorite chili recipes.

This gift set is sure to please anyone lucky enough to get it.

We are more than SOLD OUT for the August class. The menus will soon be posted for the fall classes.

ALWAYS EAT CHILES AT LEAST 24 OUT OF 30 DAYS!

Have a great month! JANE BUTEL

Jane's Message August, 2012

With the sizzling heat scorching most all of us—I thought a quartet of my favorite summer main dish salads would be a welcome treat!

The Grilled Chicken and Chard Salad is double quick and out of my ”Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook” and is pictured here. The Chicken Rice Salad is also out of the same book—which means the recipes were developed to be created in less than 20 minutes with an average of 5 ingredients.

The other two Grilled Salads are from my Southwestern Grill cookbook and feature grilled veggies for one and the other highlights grilled turkey. The Grilled Vegetable Salad is just plain yummy and could have grilled meat or fish added to it, if desired.

The Grilled Turkey Salad has the flavors of the tropics with papaya or mango and avocado and is just perfect for a “too hot to cook night”.

OUR NEW BLOG, “Chiles and Chilis…Southwestern Cooking with Jane Butel” is developing quite nicely. We have completed videos to accompany the featured recipes for several of New Mexico’s most proud traditional favorites, such as Sopaipillas, which we just completed a day ago, Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas, Guacamole and very timely—“How to Roast Green Chiles”.

Take a look and perhaps these videos will be helpful to you.

We still have openings in our Full Participation Weekend Cooking Classes in September, October and November. For Bytes subscribers, I am offering a three day special of 25% off for the next 3 days.

We still have a few openings in our award winning full participation cooking weekend /September 14-16,2012.

You will have loads of fun cooking with chiles, learning hints, secrets and tips for Southwestern cooking while making Tamales, Sopaipillas, Chile Rellenos, Moles, Tres Leches Cake, Flan and much, much more. The complete menus are on my website under cooking schools, at www.janebutelcooking.com.